Searching for the Wordle answer for January 24, 2025? You’re in the right place. This post will reveal helpful hints, strategies for success, and ultimately, the answer. Today’s challenge featured a steeper difficulty; it took me five attempts to solve. Warning: Spoilers for Wordle #1,315 are included below! If you’re interested in tips before seeing the solution, continue reading.

Understanding How to Play Wordle

You can find Wordle here on the New York Times’ site. Each day, a new puzzle becomes available at midnight according to your local time zone.

Your first step is to guess a five-letter word. The colors of the letters will indicate their accuracy: green for accurate and correctly positioned letters, yellow for correct letters placed incorrectly, and gray for letters that aren’t in the word at all. For in-depth details, check out our comprehensive guide to Wordle and this strategy guide for advanced players. Additional information can be found at the end of this post following the hints and solution.

Ready to dive into the tips? Here we go!

Are There Any Unusual Letters in Today’s Wordle?

Common letters are based on the traditional typesetters’ mnemonic known as ETAOIN SHRDLU. (Remember it like a name, “Edwin Shirdloo,” and imagine he’s a friend of yours!)

Today’s puzzle incorporates three of these common letters, while the other two are also fairly typical.

Can You Offer a Hint for Today’s Wordle?

It’s something you might find on a brunch menu.

Are There Double or Repeated Letters in Today’s Wordle?

There is one letter that repeats in today’s word.

How Many Vowels Are Present in Today’s Wordle?

The word contains one vowel, which appears twice.

What Is the First Letter of Today’s Wordle?

The word initiates with the letter C.

What Is the Last Letter of Today’s Wordle?

Today’s word concludes with the letter E.

What Is Today’s Wordle Solution?

Drumroll please… Today’s word is CREPE.

My Thought Process on Solving Today’s Wordle

The words I began with included RAISE, TOUCH, and BLEND. Ultimately, the only words that fit were CREME and CREPE.

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The Answer from Yesterday’s Wordle

Yesterday’s challenge proved to be more difficult. The clue was “a relative position,” and it comprised three common letters along with two fairly popular ones.

The solution was UPPER.

Basics of Wordle

Wordle revolves around guessing the secret word for the day. Upon opening the game, players will see a blank grid. The first move is your choice: enter any five-letter word.

As you make guesses, the colors will provide hints: Green indicates a correct letter in the correct spot, Yellow signifies a letter that exists in the word but is mispositioned, and Gray means the letter is not present in the solution at all. For example, guessing the word PARTY while the solution is PURSE would yield green for P and R.

• Yellow showed letters that are in the word but not in your guessed position (e.g., guessing PARTY and the answer is ROAST reveals R, A, and T as yellow).

• Gray confirms that the letter is not part of the solution. For instance, guessing PARTY with all gray means the word can’t be PURSE or ROAST.

Keep this in mind with each guess as you work to reveal the correct word before exhausting your tries. You are permitted six guesses, after which the game ends.

Effective Starter Words for Wordle

Wondering what to choose as your initial guess? Optimal starter words typically include common letters, enhancing your chances of receiving yellow and green indications to aid your guesses. While there’s no single “best” option, an analysis from the New York Times suggests starting with these:

• CRANE

• TRACE

• SLANT

• CRATE

• CARTE

In addition, research from MIT indicates that starting with one of these words will eliminate the most possibilities right off the bat:

• SALET

• REAST

• TRACE

• CRATE

• SLATE

Other solid choices might include ARISE or ROUND. While words like ADIEU and AUDIO focus on vowels, beginning with consonants like RENTS or CLAMP may also be effective. Decide on a strategy and observe the outcomes.

Winning Strategies for Wordle

For those keen on mastering Wordle, several guides highlight effective strategies worth exploring. One guide discusses leveraging consonants to your advantage, while another provides tips centered on the frequency of letters. An advanced strategy document elaborates on combining hints efficiently to enhance win chances quickly.

The distinguishing factor for Wordle winners lies in their approach to gathering information through their guesses. And rather than squandering attempts on several guesses that are too similar (e.g., MOUND, ROUND, SOUND, HOUND), it’s more effective to devise a guess that utilizes known consonants and covers more ground, like MARSH, to see if further letters provide additional clues.

A noteworthy consideration is that since the acquisition of Wordle by the New York Times, the word list is curated by an editor who selects themes that may come into play, thereby deviating from the original fixed list of approximately 2,300 words. Occasionally, the chosen words can be unconventional or related to current events.

Alternatives to Wordle

For those who crave more five-letter guessing games, a variety of Wordle alternatives are available, ranked by difficulty:

• Wheeldle, allowing you to tackle one puzzle after the next.

• Dordle and Quordle, which require solving two (Dordle) or four (Quordle) puzzles simultaneously using shared guesses. Additionally, there’s Octordle, featuring eight puzzles, or Sedecordle with sixteen.

• Waffle, where you solve a grid of several scrambled five-letter words by swapping letters around.

• Absurdle, a game that changes the answer after every guess based on previous feedback, challenging you to narrow it down strategically.

• Squabble offers a competitive twist to Wordle, where you race against others while managing your guess times—taking too long incurs damage, and the last player standing wins.

• Antiwordle challenges players to avoid guessing the word of the day actively, necessitating the reuse of letters that have been correctly guessed, thus extending the challenge.